Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: METZGER, MICHAEL J

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2142 2182 2183

This examiner grants 90% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

90.3%
Allow Rate
+35.3% vs TC avg
511
Total Applications
+8.0%
Interview Lift
956
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 486 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.2%
§101 Eligibility
10.5%
§102 Novelty
74.7%
§103 Obviousness
3.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18877106 VECTOR EXTRACT AND MERGE INSTRUCTION Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18855967 TECHNIQUE FOR HANDLING DATA ELEMENTS STORED IN AN ARRAY STORAGE Final Rejection Arm Limited
18520983 FILTERING BRANCH INSTRUCTION PREDICTIONS Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18509121 VECTOR COMPARISON AND/OR POPULATION COUNT OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Arm Limited
19005958 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTING DOT PRODUCTS OF NIBBLES IN TWO TILE OPERANDS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18149072 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMIC SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-THREADING (SMT) SCHEDULING TO MAXIMIZE PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE ON HYBRID PLATFORMS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18056949 CROSS-THREAD REGISTER SHARING FOR MATRIX MULTIPLICATION COMPUTE Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17947642 SPARSITY PROCESSING ON UNPACKED DATA Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17856981 VECTOR UNPACK BASED ON SELECTION INFORMATION Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18770560 Schedule Instructions of a Program of Data Flows for Execution in Tiles of a Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Array Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18930458 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING Non-Final OA Research & Business Foundation SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
18953180 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSOR CAPABLE OF REUSING MEMORY ADDRESS VALUE Final Rejection DEEPX CO., LTD.
18625236 NEURAL PROCESSING UNIT Non-Final OA DEEPX CO., LTD.
18161830 COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY SRAM USING MEMORY-IMMERSED DATA CONVERSION AND MULTIPLICATION-FREE OPERATORS Non-Final OA THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
17743334 MATRIX MULTIPLICATION AND ACCUMULATION OPERATIONS ON COMPRESSED MATRICES Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
17710699 TECHNIQUES TO SELECTIVELY STORE DATA Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18935154 METHOD FOR PROCESSING INSTRUCTION, PROCESSOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing ESWIN Computing Technology Co., Ltd.
18619382 Reconfigurable Parallel Processing Non-Final OA XDL Technologies Inc.
18029232 CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT WITH MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION QUEUES Final Rejection UNIVERSITEIT GENT
18194327 INSTRUCTIONS FOR FLOATING POINT MULTIPLICATION AND ADDITION AND CONVERSION EMPLOYING VARIABLE PRECISION Non-Final OA Altera Corporation

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